Violence Against Women is a Horrible Reality, Not a Glossy Photo

Last night’s “America’s Next Top Model” glamorized violence against women. The model wanna-bes worked a fashion shoot where they were instructed to be “crime victims.” Models were made up and positioned as crime victims in various crime scenes, including looking overdosed, shot in the head complete with a splat of blood on the wall, decapitated, and drowned.

Every day four women die in this country as a result of domestic violence, the euphemism for murders and assaults by husbands and boyfriends. That’s approximately 1,400 women a year, according to the FBI.

The number of women who have been murdered by their intimate partners is greater than the number of soldiers killed in the Vietnam War.

To email the producers of Banks’ show, click here. Email messages to the CW Network, the one that airs Banks’ show, at feedback@CWTV.com.

I have a question / story pitch for you: Click here. Do you think this could pertain to women discussing their salaries/wages with men in the same positions at companies where such discussion has been banned? Or do you think it only applies to employees who’re discussing salaries/wages with respect to organzing or participating in a union?

Oddly, one of the 0Ls at yesterday’s Admitted Students Weekend was on America’s Next Top Model last season. A producer saw her in a mall and convinced her to try out, but she eventually realized it made much more sense to go to law school.

Which is true: the high prize on ANTM is 100k (before agent fees and taxes), but starting associate salaries in NYC are $165k.